Source: Law & Liberty
by John David Rosenthal
“The effects of the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) on freedom of speech have been a topic of heated debate in Washington and beyond. The DSA, which was passed in 2022 and came largely into force by mid-2023, is the EU’s flagship online regulatory legislation. It is supposed to ensure a ‘safe online environment,’ but to this end requires online platforms — in particular, social media platforms — to implement robust ‘content moderation’ measures. … Given that the Internet is global, the issue, as raised, for instance, by the House Judiciary Committee in a recent interim staff report on the DSA, is whether the required ‘content moderation’ implies censorship not just of Europeans, but indeed of the entire world, including Americans.” (11/04/25)
https://lawliberty.org/a-european-threat-to-the-first-amendment/